Senior Engineer HME

Senior Engineer – Mobile Equipment – Paraburdoo

• Opportunity to further develop your leadership capability whilst driving safety, productivity and cost improvements
• Residential or FIFO from Perth on a 5/2; 4/3 roster
• Exciting leadership and technical position – influence safety and reliability of the mobile equipment fleet

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Paraburdoo Mobile Equipment Maintenance (MEM) team. In this role, you will provide technical engineering support, ensuring the safe and reliable maintenance of the heavy mobile equipment fleet. Additionally, you will provide on-going coaching and development to the maintenance department, enabling our people to be their best and continually innovate and challenge the way work is done.

This role is a great opportunity for individuals looking to work in a dynamic maintenance environment where you can influence safety and reliability which covers execution, maintenance planning and engineering, whilst developing your operational leadership skills.

Reporting to the Manager MEM you will:

• Identify, lead and drive improvement projects
• Ensure maintenance best practices are safely utilised to maximise equipment reliability and minimise the time and cost of repairs
• Implement and sustain the critical risk management
• Execute and review preventative maintenance planning and scheduling activities
• Engage and collaborate with operational and other key stakeholders

What you’ll bring

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have: 

• A passion and enthusiasm to continually improve safety, production and cost
• Tertiary engineering qualifications
• Demonstrated maintenance or reliability engineering experience – previous leadership experience will be advantageous
• Knowledge of maintenance and reliability processes and systems
• The ability to be adaptable, flexible and resilient
• Demonstrated knowledge of SAP or similar CMMS
• A current ‘C’ Class drivers’ licence 

Where you will be working

Located 80km south west of Tom Price, Paraburdoo is a town nestled in some of the most scenic landscape in Western Australia. Paraburdoo is recognised for its beautiful scenery, wildlife diversity and close proximity to Karijini National Park. Paraburdoo prides itself on being a safe and friendly community; ideal for young families. 

The picturesque town provides residents with a range of leisure facilities and local amenities including a domestic airport, hospital, community centre, child care centre, primary school, parks and a variety of sporting facilities. The recently built Paraburdoo Sports, Fitness and Community Complex offers state of the art facilities including an Olympic-size swimming pool, indoor basketball court and gym.

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.

• A supportive and inclusive community environment
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• A competitive salary package reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
• Attractive employee share scheme, extensive salary sacrifice and salary packaging options, and exclusive employee discount schemes
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers – generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress. Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium – the world’s first to be certified “responsible” – helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world and explore the universe. Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTI+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.

This role is for applicants residing in or willing to permanently relocate to Western Australia. Rio Tinto offers Fly in and fly out options from Perth, our regional FIFO hubs and the opportunity to live in our residential towns where applicable.

Applications close on 25 November 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).